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The sustainability paradigm : a macroeconomic perspective
Bretschger, Lucas - 1997
This paper presents a macroeconomic approach to sustainable growth. After clarifying the concept of sustainability, the interdependence between natural resources and accumulated capital stocks such as physical, human, and knowledge capital is discussed. The conditions for the substitution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009623407
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Furthering Sustainable Development : The Implementation of Green Procurement in Central and Eastern Europe: Methods and Experiences from Hungarian Public and Private Organizations
Diófási-Kovács, Orsolya - 2015
The aim of the article is to show how one of the most active and demonstrative management tool for furthering sustainable development can be successfully implemented through a Central and Eastern European example. The Green Procurement Hungary Project (GPH project) was conducted in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015426
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Sustainable Development in the Russian Federation – Indicator-Based Approach
Bartniczak, Bartosz - 2017
The presented study discusses problems referring to the concept of sustainable development in the Russian Federation in the period 2004-2013. The first part presents, e.g. the importance of creativity, good space governance, the significance and reasons for sustainable development in Russia....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952261
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The Impact of Environmental Preferences on Public Supporting for the River Ecosystem Restoration Program in China
Zhang, Yifei - 2014
Restoration of the urban river system is urgently needed as urban river pollution is becoming an important environmental problem in China. Apart from the technical challenge, explicitly including the local residents' preferences toward ecosystem management and restoration often is critical for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049350
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Market Mechanisms in Environment Protection as Sustainable Development Factor
Graczyk, Andrzej - 2014
The article presents the opportunities of implementation of market mechanisms in environment protection and using its supplies. Launching market allocation mechanism can have two basic forms: market allocation based on principle of single auction, as well as based on principle of possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014203428
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Environmental Ethics from A Thomistic-Personalistic Perspective (Implications for the Sustainable Development Concept)
Ciszek, Mariusz - 2014
According to the author, Thomistic environmental ethics is the ethics of respect for man and nature. Contrary to popular opinion it doesn’t possess a strong anthropocentric nor a non-ecological character but a theocentric one with a pro-ecological dimension. Thomism teaches that there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014149279
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When Environmental Policy is Superfluous : Growth and Polluting Resources
Schou, Paul - 2003
In a research-driven endogenous growth model, a non-renewable resource gives rise to pollution. Consumption may either grow or decline along the optimal balanced growth path, but the (flow) pollution level necessarily diminishes continuously. Any positive balanced growth path is sustainable....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014091444
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Sustainable Activism, the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy and Experimental Learning
Durbin, Paul T. - 2011
This article builds on, and incorporates, an earlier one, in which I used four examples of doctoral theses at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy to show the advantages of experiential learning in dealing with real-world problems of sustainable development. The purpose of the present...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014046195
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Economic analysis, sustainability and environmental commons
Musu, Ignazio - 2013
issues: climate change and biodiversity. Involvement of governments and a reference framework provided by intergovernmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223360
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Policy instruments for creating markets for biodiversity: Certification and ecolabing
Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Riyanto, Yohanes E. - 2001
creating markets for biodiversity. In the paper we conclude that the success of a policy instrument for creating markets for … biodiversity depends on the nature crucial factors, including the ability of the policy instrument to deal with (a) the public good … nature of most of the nonmarket biodiversity benefits; (b) the asymmetric informational characteristics related to the …
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